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Issue Climate change is creating many challenges for developing countries. Global disease burden is increasing as a result of interconnected factors, such malnutrition, access to safe drinking water and indoor air pollution. Approaches that use simple technologies to improve the food-fuel-income security axis could help address these challenges, by creating resilient livelihoods and healthy communities. …

…green canahua plants, and they are currently promoting its consumption by urban populations. One important outcome of the project was that another project, called Food Security for Climate Change Adaptation, financed by Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, has taken up the results of the project and is promoting the consumption of green canahua plants by farmers from the…

…with organizations, including universities and professional societies, certified to give courses for credit. NextGenU’s initial offerings focus on health sciences and include emergency medicine, environmental health, and climate change and health. NextGenU also offers students extensive human interaction (work products, structured peer interactions and one-on-one mentored activities), interactive computerized learning (interactive quizzes and word games), and…

Over 89 million people live in remote areas of Bangladesh that are subject to natural disasters of increasing regularity and intensity as a result of global climate change, leaving poor migratory communities in northern and southern parts of the country with a complete absense or poor functioning health services and infrastructure. Friendship is the only …

…with stress, regulate behavior, and build positive relationships. Surf therapy is delivered by coaches from local communities who act as caring and consistent adults that youth can connect with and relate to. Waves for Change offers a blueprint for embedding sport therapy interventions within communities to address mental health in an accessible and stigma free way.

…non-communicable diseases (NCD). Solution The team proposed to reduce NCD risk factors by piloting a micro franchise social enterprise business model, to prove that community members would change their unhealthy eating habits if presented with healthy and affordable alternatives. The main activities completed during the project included: ·   Creation of a training centre for low-income…

Chamas (‘groups’ in Kiswahili) have a longstanding presence in East Africa as effective networks through which individuals can meet outside the home and pool resources in emergencies. Building on this cultural tradition, innovators at the University of Toronto, working with Moi University through AMPATH (Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare), developed mother-child groups, called Chama [...]

…water purification technology available is boiling water but, for many Kenyans, this method is cost-prohibitive and limited by the availability of raw materials. Solution Innovative Canadians for Change (ICChange) has developed a ceramic water filter technology that is geared toward a resource-limited setting. The ceramic water filters (CWFs) are composed of local clay and an…

…infant warmer for premature and low-birth-weight babies in developing countries. The Embrace Nest has three components:  an infant-sized sleeping bag, a heater and a pouch of phase change material. The pouch is warmed in the heater (separate from the sleeping bag) and then placed into a compartment of the sleeping bag where it maintains constant…

The project expands the Ifrah Foundation’s model of systematic change for ending female genital mutilation (FGM) to the Banadir region of Somalia. The model of systematic change uses advocacy, awareness raising (particularly on the health impacts of FGM), community education and empowerment to shift cultural beliefs around FGM. This expansion includes a media academy for…